jackhammer

A superb quality recording capturing the band in their transition from melancholy synth pop to one of the earliest exponents of Post Rock. Talk Talk are ridiculously underated and their complex, emotional brand of Pop makes them one of my very favourite bands and extremely influential in distorting rigid Pop music parameters to make deep, heartfelt music that still sounds stunning today nearly 24 years later.

Many bands peddling an emotional Pop sound owe a huge debt to a band that refused to play the commercial game and instead imploded due to main man Mark Hollis's descent into hard drug use and musical depression. Once again proof that Pop music is not the crap you hear on the radio or watch on MTV.

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